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Bike Edmonton Board Meeting Minutes for May 2023

Board meetings are open to Bike Edmonton members and the public.

  • Location: Google Meet
  • Start Time: May 8, 2023 7pm

Please RSVP to board@bikeedmonton.ca if you plan on attending. Please include a brief summary of any agenda item you would like to table. Thank you!

Attendance

  • Meeting Chair: Kelly Granigan
  • Minute-taker: Marcel Huculak
  • Board attendance: Kelly Granigan, Marcel Huculak, Andi Eng, Jason Wang, Michelle Bourdon, Ceileigh Cunningham, Charlotte Thomasson, Maxine Myre, Stephen Paskuluk, Alexandra Stout, John Fuller
  • Staff attendance: Greg Glatz
  • Regrets: Matt Hoyt, John Fuller
  • Absent:
  • Guests:

Call to Order

  • Meeting called to order at 7: PM

Logistics for Next Meeting

  • Date: June 12, 2023, 7pm
  • Location: Google Meet
  • Chair:
  • Minute-taker:

Discussion of agenda (5 min)

Consent Agenda (5 min)

President's Report

Treasurer's Report

H.R. Committee Report

Governance Committee Report

Governance Committee Report

South Shop Ad-hoc Working Group

Reports to be reviewed, not in the consent agenda

Executive Director's Report (10 min)

Approval of Agenda, Minutes, Reports (5 min)

MOTION
To approve this April agenda, the April 2023 minutes, and reports as presented

Moved:
Seconded:
Aye No Abstain

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Current & Completed Business

Updates on Action Items From Previous Meeting, Reminders (5 min)

  • Everyone log your volunteer hours for the past month.
  • Committee Chairpersons to post all committee meetings to Bike Edmonton Events calendar (unless the event must explicitly be private: then use "Bike Edmonton Internal" calendar)
  • Committee Chairpersons to ensure wiki is up-to-date with committee TOR.
  • Reminder of our Code of Conduct
  • Reminder of conflict of interest policy

COMPLETED

New Business

Board and Committee Evaluations (15 min)

Staffing for Community Events (20 min)

Voicemail and Phone System (15 min)

Draft Donor Recognition Policy (20 min)

Draft Donor Recognition Policy

increasing volunteer responsibilities to increase shop hours (20 min)

Optional items pending time

Potential New Projects (20 min)

  • Review Pet Projects list to see what we want to take on next, and who will do it.
  • Potential projects:
    • No Period Without
    • social family friendly bike ride/cargobike meet up during summer
  • Pet Projects from Retreat:
    • Bike parking at events
    • BE working with organizations and grassroots movements to make biking accessible for houseless people.
    • A learn to ride program. (this may potentially happen, Greg has started looking into learn to ride for adults)
    • offering under-housed/un-housed folks who use bikes DIY repair support or bike maintenance education
    • Engage members to identify locations needing better bike parking, then approach the owners/lessees to install the parking
    • A bike service van
    • Website revamp
    • community tourism
    • Building relationships with funders or other revenue supporters to support the org
    • Tube-bogganing
    • Bike With Us (previously bike to the symphony)
    • weaving used tubes
    • BE History/Archive project
    • Unpaid artist in residence
    • Bike of the month Tiktok/youtube video series
    • Online bike art/invention challenge
    • Repair videos series
    • Guerrilla bike repair street crew

In Camera Session

MOTION
To move into in camera session with Dr. Greg Glatz as guest

Moved:
Seconded:
Aye No Abstain

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  • Name (time estimate)
MOTION
To move out of in camera session

Moved:
Seconded:
Aye No Abstain

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Adjournment

MOTION
To adjourn the meeting at pm.

Moved:
Seconded:
Aye No Abstain

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